About the Author: Captain Uh Merica

On August 10th, 1974, less than 24 hours after President Richard Nixon's resignation speech, a pair of shocked Idaho newlyweds discovered a fledgling newborn, wrapped in an American Flag and crying "The National Anthem" note for note, on their front porch. Some kids burp the alphabet. Uh Merica cried the anthem. The newlyweds took him in.